Eve of a hundred midnights
Subtitle: the star-crossed love story of two World War II correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
By: Bill Lascher
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780062375209
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; War correspondents; Biography; Journalists
Other titles: Eve of 100 midnights
Description: On New Year's Eve, 1941, just three weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese were bombing the Philippine capital of Manila, where journalists Mel and Annalee Jacoby had married just a month earlier. The couple had worked in China as members of a tight community of foreign correspondents with close ties to Chinese leaders; if captured by invading Japanese troops, they were certain to be executed. Racing to the docks just before midnight, they barely escaped on a freighter--the beginning of a tumultuous journey that would take them from one island outpost to another. While keeping ahead of the approaching Japanese, Mel and Annalee covered the harrowing war in the Pacific Theater--two of only a handful of valiant and dedicated journalists reporting from the region.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 382-398) and index.
Table of contents: title: Why should I contribute a little more trash?; title: The itch is perpetual; title: The voice of China; title: The Haiphong incident; title: True Hollywood story; title: "I'll be careful"; title: Nothing but twisted sticks; title: "He types on the desk, and I type on the dressing table"; title: Infamy; title: Into the blackness beyond; title: False convoy; title: Too good to be true; title: Soldier of the press.